[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-07, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
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> If you are looking to do non-C bare metal programming then you should skip PASCAL unless you have a deep love for the language. You need to look at forth or the various OpenSource BASIC projects. Here's a few links. There was a big push about a decade ago for Embedded Basic.
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> https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/?source=directory
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> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gcbasic/?source=directory
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A quick look at the above two doesn't appear to show any support for
bare metal ARM programming.

Also, the last time I looked at more recent BASICs, their idea of
type safety was still really poor when compared to the Wirth languages.

> Amsterdam Compiler Kit already has PDP-11 support
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/tack/?source=directory
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> To jump between bare metal and application you should really look at forth.
> http://forth.org/compilers.html
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I could never get the hang of Forth. :-)

Simon.

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